It was a nice rant until you threw in the Jap comments.  That was pretty low.  I'm an American who can beat the game in about 17 minutes without dying and I think the world record is a couple minutes faster than that.  It's pretty much the perfect platformer.  I wonder if you can beat Mega Man 1, 2, 9, or 10, or Donkey Kong Country, Sonic 2, or Contra.  You might just ... ya know, not be any good at platformers?

And you wouldnt last a second on Hardocre team deathmatch on Black ops, or on barebones team tactics, especially on Nuketown map

I don't know to whom you addressed that statement, since I haven't played Black Ops, I don't know how I would fare on it, but given that I had a K/D of 2.1 on Hardcore Team match in MW (my last COD) and one of my best matches was on Wetworks, were i went 41-2 with no single nade thrown and using only the M1014, I believe I could fare well in Black Ops too.

You beat it in 17 min I haven't beat the game in all the years since it came out.  Then again haven't played it it most of the years since then but still.  On a seperate note I wish the game had a save and let you go back to levels though because I know there are so many I never played because by the time I'd get to them I'd get tired and not be able to beat them or would just stop playing.  At least megaman has passwords to let you start latter in the game.

You beat it in 17 min I haven't beat the game in all the years since it came out.  Then again haven't played it it most of the years since then but still.  On a seperate note I wish the game had a save and let you go back to levels though because I know there are so many I never played because by the time I'd get to them I'd get tired and not be able to beat them or would just stop playing.  At least megaman has passwords to let you start latter in the game.

You beat it in 17 min I haven't beat the game in all the years since it came out.  Then again haven't played it it most of the years since then but still.  On a seperate note I wish the game had a save and let you go back to levels though because I know there are so many I never played because by the time I'd get to them I'd get tired and not be able to beat them or would just stop playing.  At least megaman has passwords to let you start latter in the game.

Like Games4Fun said, the Super Mario All-Stars version has a save function.  Also, if you download the game for $5 on the Virtual Console, you can use the suspend function.

But back in the day on the NES, I would just leave the NES on overnight to try to see every level in the game.  Even on the NES the game had unlimited continues.

not everyone was allowed to keep the console running and for me it was always depressing haveing to start the the beginning of a world again

Thanks everyone for that info good to know.

Ha, I remember very carefully pretending to turn a videogame off and put it away for the night and wake up hoping it would still be on and running.

I don't get why ehre adults so strict about this.